Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-01-25
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A gentleman, tiger hunting in the
jungle OF India, gives the following
description of thrilling night-scene
he once witnessed. A woodman, he
says, had been killed by n tiger
While beating up the jungle we came
upon the body Knowing that the
tiger would return for his prey at night
| insisted that the woodman's body
should lie there, while | and my In
dian servants took up our positions to
wait and watch for his coming that
might shoot him. II must have been
10 o'clock, and was doing, when
my arm was grasped by Chiniah. The
moon was shining, and looking round,
! found Chiniah's teeth chgtter.nE and
his face as pale AS corpse. The other
man. with his hands over his face, sat
trembling. then looked in the di-
rection where Chiniah's horrible gaze
was fixed, am !, too, was taken
aback.
The body OF the woolcutter was
slowly moving to aud fro, the arms
and legs occasionally lifted up, whilst
no age.t wa visible. 1t made my
blood run cod, .a I'D | felt a sensation as
il cold water ga being poured slowly
down my lac a.ang The spine. The
contortionS Y inued, and knew not
what to NIX OF thtn. "Dl6 | not
tell you, Sab, v. spered Chiniah,
chow wron1 / was IL sit up over Tie
body of a Hnd50? Ne should have
carried him to The village and had him
burnt. hut new We are all dead men;
he will arise pre,tn!ly and Kill Us"
Hold your tongae, You fool, re
piled. the dead 20 no, come to lie
again ia this w1rlG there is some
TICK being played up Us. . Here /
jackal came alon : the .Gvine ard out
into the open, and approached The
corpse, but getting within u few yards,
put his ta.l between his LEGS, and with
the frightened cry Of the Fhceal, ran
for his lie
"Wi i'll you believe me now Sahib p"
said Chinah. | was getting nervous.
The body moved back ward, lis face,
before hidden, became exposed There
was not sound. My two followers
had sUceumbed ! believe they had
tainted. Watching intcntly, SAW
glide across the chest of the dead man
the head OF an immense rock snake
IL was wider than "a large plate across,
and It's tongue was licking the corpse
all over The movements OF the
limbs were now fully explained. My
feelings of horror disappeared. The
movements of the snake were inaudi-
BILE, but | could see the disgusting pro-
cess of covering the body with SALIVA.
We waited patiently, feeling assured
that the tiger would make his appear
ance, and ! was curious to know what
view he would take Of this infringe.
ment on his prey. After fully two
hours work, the snake opened his
I horrid jaws, and began TO swallow the
| body and head foremost.
Now python's teeth are SO arrang
ed that, once anything enters his
mouth, it cannot be rejected again
| Gradually the head and neck dsap
pearcd. Then there was a terrible roaI
| and huge object seemed to be hurled
into the moonlight, and we saw il was
the tiger at full leap. The infuriated
brute dropped directly on the body o.
| the woodman, and seized the python
| by the back of the neck. Instantly the
snakes huge body, in circumference
equalling a mans and nearly thirty
feet long, wound round the tiger, il
| quick, convulsive movements, and VIZ
could hear the bones being crushed
one after another. The roar the tigel
gave at the first squeeze was appalling
but before long the roars turned int
means. the means into gurglinl
sound, and gradually they too ceased
while the contortions of the snake con
] tinued for over an hour.